Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,700, Benjamin Ellinwood, Continental N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental N. H.
Ellinwood Benjamin or Ellenwood
S. 42,700
CONTENTS

of 12 Paul Van Der Voort relating to battle of Bennington Prior
6380 41  Ohio
12.95 An with rate
Benjamin Ellinwood of Bellepre in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Reed of the New Hampshire line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 27 of Apr Sept 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of Feb y 1818 and sent to Hon. S. Barber 1819 H s Repres.
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818 — 34.35 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00  82 35
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Publication sent September 6th 1818 to General Pennington, Genl. Harmer, Ohio

State of Ohio Washington County ss) personally appeared before the subscriber one of
The associate judges for Washington County & State aforesaid Benjamin Ellinwood of the Township of Bellepre County & State aforesaid who Deposes & Says that Some time in May A 1775 he En- =tered the Service of the United States or provincial army then at Cambridge Near Boston in the Company Commanded by Captain Therculus Towns, in a Regiment Commanded by Col James Reed, the Com= pany was raised in New Hampshire but he does know whether not all the Regiment was raised in New Hampshire or whether a part of it was not raised in Mass= achusetts but believes the Regiment was raised in both States - his Term of Service was Eight months - which time he served out at the End of this Term he Enlisted again for twelve months in a Company Commanded by Captain Jones of New Hampshire, & in the same Regiment as before - which Term of twelve months he served Completely out - he then returned home, or rather a short time before the expiration of his time was sent home on recruiting orders & his time expired on this Service, & again Some time in August  July A 1777 he Enlisted in Captain Clark's Company for two months the Regiment Com= =manded by General Starks he was in Bennington battle & likewise at the taking of Burgoyne's army, he then quit the Service - he is Now Seventy one years of age - is in reduced Circumstances, & wishes to be placed on the pension list of the United States agreeably to an act of Congress Dated March, A 1818 & further the Depon= =ant saith not.
Benjamin Ellinwood
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 27 th Day of April A 1818
John Sharp, associate judge C.C.P.
Washington County

I John Sharp Judge of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benjamin Ellenwood did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common enemy for the term of three months on the Continental Establishment, & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Depart- ment of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress — Marietta April 27 th 1818 John Sharp
Returned for further proof of service
I am personally acquainted acquainted with the within named Benj a Ellenwood, and know his circumstances & his service as to entitle him to a pension. Washington City Dec r . 1818
L. Barclay Member of H. of Reps. —

State of Ohio Washington County ss Court of Common Pleas July 24th 1820.
On this twenty fourth day of July 1820 personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of record for said County Benjamin Allinwood aged seventy five years resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows to wit in Captain Arculus Jones Company five months and one year, Captain Jones' Company in Col n James Read's Regiment and three months in Captain Clarke's Company under Gen l Stark, was at the taking of Burgoyne. in New Hampshire line, he made Declaration 27th April 1818 No o of Certificate 6,380.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen, of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not now has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Viz One Horse 24 years old. 1 Ditto 4 years old. 1 old Saddle. 2 Cows. 3 Sheep & 3 Lambs, 2, 3 year old steers 1, 2 year old Heifer. 2 Calves 7 one year old Pigs. Due me a small 40 $11.00. 1 Baker oven, 5 kitchen Chairs. 1 old Table. 1 old Chest 1. 8 G ts Kettle. 1 Small Pot. 1 plough. 1 st draft Chains, 2 old Chisels. 1 Trowel & Stone. I live on rented land my wife is seventy three years of age and is unable to support herself by labour. Having had her large brood three times. Lucinda Hoskins a girl of nine years old. is all of our family, I am not able to support myself by labour. Paid debts as follows Viz. A Debt to James Whitney, of $37.00. To Sherebiah Fletcher, about $12.00. To Daniel Brooks, a debt of $30.00 To John Nestler a debt of about $50 to B Hubbard a debt of $50 To William Skinner $300 To Ingles &c $10.00 To Rice Loring $50 To Doctor Beebe, $1.00. To John Barnes $5.00

To
Dasman $2,00. making together the sum of $141,50
Benjamin Ellenwood
Declarations and Declared on the twenty fourth day of July 1828 before the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County Ohio
Attest Geo Dunlevy clk
The Court doth certify that the statement of the declarant as to his bodily disability is correct
Attest Geo Dunlevy clk
I George Dunlevy clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Washington in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing oaths and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court and do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Ninety dollars & Fifty cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this thirty first day of July Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Geo Dunlevy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County Ohio
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May 7, 1934
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Benjamin Ellinwood-S.42700 BA-J/AWF
Mr. W. W. Ellenwood Coalton Ohio
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Benjamin Ellinwood, pensioner of Washington County, Ohio.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 42700, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Benjamin Ellinwood.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown in the claim, nor are the names of his parents given.
21104 Benjamin Ellinwood enlisted, place not stated, in May 1775, served eight months in Captain Archelaus Town's New Hampshire company; at the expiration of this service, he reenlisted and served twelve months in Captain Jones' company, Colonel James Reed's New Hampshire regiment. He enlisted in August, 1777, served two or three months in Captain Clark's New Hampshire company and was in the battle of Bennington and taking of Burgoyne.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818, then a resident of Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio, then aged about seventy-one years. It is not shown, when he moved to Ohio.
In 1820 he was still residing in Washington County, and said that this family consisted of his wife, her name not given, aged seventy-three years and a child, Lucinda

Hoskins, aged nine years; it is not stated that this child was related to the family.
The soldier, Benjamin Ellinwood, had a wife living during the War of the Revolution, it is not shown that the wife referred to in 1820, was the same as the one living during the war. There are no further data in this claim concerning the family of Benjamin Ellinwood.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address to whom sent and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Adjutant General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following data:
Benjamin Ellinwood Certificate # 6380 Issued February 4, 1819 Rate $8.00 per month To commence April 27, 1818 Act of March 18, 1818 Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

I Martha Fletcher of lawful age testify and say, that I am personally knowing that Benjamin Ellingwood some time in the revolu- -tion war coming to my Father's house in the Town of Linnéborough in the State of New Hampshire and well recollects of the said Ellingwood saying to my Father, that he had enlisted into the Service for the term of one year - at the same time he left with my Father a horse, with a request to him, if his the said Ellingwood's wife, should stand in need of Assistance in his absence - to sell the horse and remit to her the avails thereof, or if his wife chose to take the horse herself to deliver it to her. - the horse however rem- ained in my Father's possession until Ellingwood returned home which to the best of my recollection & belief was twelve months or more from the time he left the horse with my Father and and I perfectly well recollects at the time of Ellingwood's returning of his saying to my Father that he had served his term of time he had enlisted for, & had got his discharge, and further recol- -lects of his taking the horse, from my Father's and further the deponent saith not - Martha Fletcher

Washington ss on the 22 d day Jan y . 1819. personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace for Belfre Township. Martha Fletcher the within signed made Solemn Oath that the deposition by her Subscribed contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Cyrus Ames Jut. Peace
Washington ss I do hereby certify that the Witnesses who have testified to the two foregoing depositions appear to be entirely disinterested, and I do further certify that their credibility is not disputed
Cyrus Ames Jut. Peace

Copy One O.V. & N. Division.
JRC
Feb. 6, 1904.
Mrs. Samuel Daniels,
Burlington, Des Moines Co., Iowa.
Madam:
In reply to your inquiry addressed to Mr. Holtzlander, an employe of this Bureau, you are informed that Benjamin Ellinwood was pensioned upon evidence accepted as showing his service in the Revolutionary war. It appears in his application for pension, made in 1818, at which time he gave his age as seventy-one years, that he resided in Washington county, Ohio. He alleged therein that about May, 1775, he enlisted at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a company commanded by Captain Herculus Towns, regiment commanded by Colonel Read; that he understood that the regiment was made up in part of troops from New Hampshire and part from Massachusetts; that his enlistment was for eight months, and that he served the entire term of said enlistment, when he re-enlisted in Captain Jones' company, of the same regiment, for one year; that a short time before the expiration of this term of enlistment he was sent home on recruiting service, where he was at the time of the expiration of the period of his enlistment; that in August, 1777, he enlisted

in Captain Clark's company for two months, under the command of General Starke; and that he was present at the battle of Bennington and the surrender of Burgoyne's army, after which he quit the service.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

O. W. & N. Div. I 42700 E. W. B.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
November 9, 1896.
Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Benjamin Ellenwood, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that he made application for pension April 27, 1818, at which time he was 71 years of age and residing at Bellpre, Ohio, and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the New Hampshire troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Clark and Col. James Reed. He enlisted at Cambridge, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr W. F. Chevalier, Red Oak, Iowa.

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STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EARL H. HANEFELD, DIRECTOR COLUMBUS
DIVISION OF PLANT INDUSTRY W. W. ELLENWOOD, CHIEF
ADMINISTERS: PLANT PEST LAW APIARY INSPECTION LAW AGRICULTURAL SEED LAW
Coalton, Ohio April 19, 1934
Pension Bureau Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
Please send us complete information that you may have of the Revolutionary War Soldier Benjamin Ellinwood, Ellingwood, or Ellenwood.
In U. S. Senate Document, Pension Roll, 1st Session of 23rd Congress, Vol. III, Ohio List, page 96, Washington County, we find the following: Benjamin Ellenwood, Private, Annual Allowance $96.00, received $753.87. N. H. Continental Line placed on Pension Roll February 4, 1879. Pension commenced April 27, 1818, Age 87.
In Sect. of War Pension List, Act March 18, 1818, Page 636, in Ohio, Benjamin Ellingwood, N. H. Line, Private.
We would like to know where in New Hampshire he enlisted from; when; age at time of enlistment; in what battles or campaigns he participated. If you have any record of him after the Revolutionary War and before he received the above pension, we would like to know where he lived before coming to Ohio about 1811; where, when, and to whom he was married. When did he receive his last pension payment? What was his address then? When did he die?
If you have this information and there is a charge for copying it off, please inform us. If you have information to answer part of the above questions, please do so, and tell us where we might secure the answers to the others.
We assure you we will deeply appreciate your assistance.
Very truly yours,
W. W. Ellenwood
W. W. Ellenwood Coalton, Ohio

Washington County Chapter Washington, Pennsylvania
47 N. Wade Ave., Washington, Penna., Sept. 10, 1937.
Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Revolutionary War Section Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I am writing to inquire if Benjamin Ellenwood , (or Benjamin Tuck Ellenwood) who served in the Revolutionary War, was a pensioner. He moved to Ohio, Washington County I believe, and is said to have been granted a pension in 1818. I should like very much to get any family data or other help from his application papers. If you find him a pensioner will you give me this data please? He served in New Hampshire and is said to have come from the vicinity of Amherst.
I am told that the last payment of a pensioner gives date of death and often names of heirs or administrator. May I have the CERTIFICAT NUMBER of above that I may write to the General Accounting Office for this information.
Will you be kind enough to let me have this information just as soon as possible and oblige.
Truly yours,
(Mrs. W. A. H.) Florence S. McIlvaine Regent Washington Co. Ch. D. A. R.

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Dallas City Tex Feb 23/1904
Pension Department Washington D.C. I want to join the D.A.R. in order to do so I have to have the War record of my ancestor
Benjamin Ellenwood a Revolutionary Soldier; I think he went from Maine but am not positive if you can get me this record address
Mrs S. I. Snides Dallas City Tex
B or 170
did my ancestor draw a Pension. SIL

I Noah Cross of lawful age, testify and say that I am personally knowing to Benjamin Ellingwood in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred & seventy Six engag in in the year Service in the Revolution (War) and to the best of my recollection and belief in a company commanded by a Capt. Jones in Col. James Reed's Reg t of the State of New Hampshire — the same year that Ellingwood was in the Army I belonged to a Regiment commanded by a Col. Robinson of Vermont. Which Reg t was commonly known by the Name of the green Mountain boys. While in the Service I was personally acquainted with the said Ben m Ellingwood, have been on fatigue with him sundry times, viz t at the Stirlingbridge across lake Champlain, to Tiende-noga have been on fatigue with him sundry times at building the fort at Mount Independence at that time generally said to be in Canada. And I further say that to the best of my knowledge I Verily believe that the said Benjamin Ellingwood did faithfully serve out his term of time of twelve months in the Service of the Revolution as he has stated in the deposition by him subscribed on the 27 th day of April A.D. 1818 before John Sharp Esq r one of the

Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Washington State of Ohio and further the deponent saith that the foregoing
Washington ss } January 22. 1879 } Sworn to before me
Cyrus Ames J. P.
State of Ohio } As Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said Washington County ss } County, I do hereby certify that Cyrus Ames Esquire, who has signed his name to the foregoing Certificate was then, and now is, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly elected, commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Laws of said State. And that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all things by him thus certified as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix my Official seal at Marietta in said County this twenty sixth day of January Anno Domini One Thousand eight hundred and Nineteen.
Geo. D. D. Clerk

U. OLD WAR & NAVY. OCT 29 1896 FILES. P. B.
PENSION OFFICE U. S. OCT 27 1896

W. F. Chevalier, Superintendent City Schools.
Red Oak, Iowa, Oct. 23 1896.
Honorable Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:— My great grandfather Benjamin Ellenwood was an ensign in the Revolutionary War, his commission was signed by John Hancock, his home Bangor, Maine, he was with Washington in his retreat across the Jerseys. He was a pensioner of the Revolutionary War. I desire to make application for membership in the "Sons of the Revolution in the State of Iowa", and write you to obtain a record of Benjamin Ellenwood's military second service as he was a pensioner for service in the Continental Army.
Very respectfully yours,
W. F. Chevalier,
Supt. Schools - Red Oak, Iowa.

September 30, 1937
Mrs. W. A. H. McIlvaine 47 N. Wade Avenue Washington, Pennsylvania
Benjamin Ellinwood S. 43700 BA-8/ATF am
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Benjamin Ellinwood, who served from New Hampshire, and later moved to Washington County, Ohio.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 43700, based upon the military service of Benjamin Ellinwood in the War of the Revolution.
The date and place of birth of this soldier were not given, nor were the names of his parents stated.
Benjamin Ellinwood enlisted, place not given, sometime in May, 1775, served eight months in Captain Archelaus Town's New Hampshire company; at the expiration of this service, he reenlisted and served twelve months in Captain Jones' company, Colonel James Reed's New Hampshire regiment. He enlisted in the month of August, 1777, served two or three months in Captain Clark's New Hampshire company, and was in the battle of Bennington and at the taking of Burgoyne.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818, at which time he was living in Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio, aged about

seventy-one years.
This soldier, Benjamin Ellinwood, stated in 1820 that his family consisted of his wife (her name not given) aged seventy-three years, and a child, Lucinda Hoskins, aged nine years; it was not shown that this child was related to the family.
Benjamin Ellinwood had a wife living during the Revolutionary War, it was not shown that she was the wife referred to in 1820.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further family data.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data:
Benjamin Ellinwood Certificate # 6380 Issued February 4, 1819 Rate $8.00 per month Commenced April 27, 1818 Act of March 18, 1818 Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator